Word: chief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Admissions Eugene S. Wilson of Amherst College sparked significant action at the annual meeting of the powerful College Entrance Examination Board in Manhattan. Speaking for 15 New England colleges, Dean Wilson had a fairly startling suggestion: add an English essay question to C.E.E.B.'s objective-question tests, the chief divining rod for admission to 287 U.S. colleges and universities. With some misgivings, the meeting finally approved Dean Wilson's urgent proposal. Result: next year, after a decade of multiple-choice questions, the famed "College Boards" will require words as well...
Credited with Westinghouse's climb back to high profits is onetime Management Consultant Mark W. Cresap Jr., 49, who took over as president in 1958, became chief executive officer last April. Under Cresap, Westinghouse has cut costs, improved low-profit product lines and reduced expenses...
...post put Greenough in line as heir to James M. Symes, who moved up from president to chairman and remained chief executive officer. Symes, 62, plans to retire in 2½ years, in Pennsy fashion wanted to pick his successor well ahead of time...
...track, was boosted to vice president in 1955. Along the route, he distinguished himself by making fast decisions, stopping the buck at his door. Married and father of two sons, he is used to putting in a ten-hour day, gathering his own facts by pounding the rails. As chief administrative officer, he will be in charge of the road's everyday operation, will have even less time for the golf and woodworking that he enjoyed before the lightning struck...
...most of Author Berry's exotic, expertly written comic novel, Peter is bivouacked in a native village while scouting his python. The chief's head wife plies him with roast bats, and the chief himself leeringly confides the secret which has enabled him to live (or so he says) for 237 years: "Copulate every day of your life." Most of the book's exuberant humor arises from the collision of Quakers, who (in the words of one of them) regard the body as "needed for the reproduction of Friends," and Hindus, who. Author Berry suggests, recoil...